Schools in Dominica ordered closed as Isaac approaches

Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit has announced that all schools in Dominica will be closed on Wednesday and Thursday.

The announcement came at a meeting of the National Planning and Emergency Organization (NEPO) on Tuesday afternoon as Dominica, now under a hurricane watch, prepares to deal with the effects of Tropical Storm Isaac which, according to weather forecasters, could become a hurricane again before it reaches the island early Thursday morning.

“We will close the schools tomorrow because we want to take precautionary measures. We expect rain tomorrow and I have been advised based on the weather reports that during this storm, we expect up to 10 inches of rain in the country and we do not want to have a situation where we allow our students to come in for an hour, two hours and have to rush them back to their homes,” the prime minister stated.

However, no such decision was taken with regard to work and all employees, according to NEPO officials, are expected to report to work tomorrow.

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9 Comments

  1. FLAT EARTH
    September 12, 2018

    Yes anonymous 2 you are on point but the dumb M.ASS.ES still will not get it. The satanic elite and their puppets have been using the weather as a weapon on humanity for decades. Some of us are finally waking up and making videos and posts trying to wake people up. They constantly mock us with truth in plain sight. The weather channel is going to start a new series called “storm of suspicion” saying that “weather is the only witness” BAM!!! Mocking the dumb people, because it is a silent war on us. The M.ASS.ES don’t look up, their heads are looking down at their phone screen all day. Our weather is totally geo engineered by the weather makers. Everything is happening under the dome the almighty created. Not on a spinning ball of water going around the sun at 66,600 miles and another 1000 miles on the so called equator. “Brain wash education to make us the fool.” Bob Marley. We have been blinded by science.

    • Dominican
      September 12, 2018

      Do you know how stupid that sounds? So you want to try convincing me that scientists create storms to kill hundreds, if not thousands of people with these storms? Please…… Grow a brain before making such a far fetched comment.

  2. Fbother
    September 12, 2018

    The use HAARP to cripple dictators.. you are a dictatorship. .the US will dismantle your governemnt using technology… no dictatorship will be allowed in this world.. mr skerite resign u damn dictator!

  3. Not me alone
    September 11, 2018

    The sad thing is, Skerrit talked resilience for a whole year and at the end of the the exercise we don’t see resilient anywhere except in the pockets of Skerrit’and a few of his first class passengers. Skerrit is resilient, Tony is resilient, Blackmore and Austrie seems to be resilient, Gerald Burton and a few more might be resilient but the rest of the people? My God they have every reason to be concerned as we face another hurricane season. They are even more vulnerable than they were before Maria.

  4. anonymous2
    September 11, 2018

    Weather weaponization at work. Only in the last 3 yrs. has DA had serious, devastating storms on a regular basis.

    • FLAT EARTH
      September 13, 2018

      The 14 people who gave this a thumbs down are dead asleep and has no clue what’s happening. It’s weather warfare. A silent war on humanity. The dumb m.ASS.es will never get it. Whatever the main stream media (tell-lie-vision) tells them, they take and run. They dont question anything. That is why they are decieved. The weather is man made and all geo engineered. Making rain fall is big business.

      Earth is flat.

  5. MommaBear
    September 11, 2018

    Schools are closed, but what about the parents that have to go to work….there should be no work as well!!!

    • Badbaje
      September 12, 2018

      Good morning to all as you continue to be watchful and cautious. No school for kids, parents should be off as well where possible. Employers have to be understanding, and they are some watching without kids, older folk, or others that may need taking care off, but this is the life.
      Be good and be safe you all.

      • Kermit
        September 12, 2018

        So where all you had them during the summer????

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